country of men and money. 

 These coniiJerations have oc- 

 casioned a coolnefs between 

 the generals of the emperor 

 jind these of the king of Pruf- 

 sia, who, dreading some com- 

 motion in his own kingdom, 

 v?i(hes to extricate himseU 

 from the league formed agaiast 

 France with as little hurt to 

 himself as he can, by throw- 

 ing all the odium upon the e- 

 migrant princes, who, indeed 

 have imposed upon the Pruf 

 slans, by making them believe 

 that the campaign would only 

 be a pleasant summer excursi- 

 on. It is impofsibie to de 

 scribe the fhame and vexation 

 manifested at the Hague on 

 account of this disappointment, 

 as the defeat of the French was 

 considered as an event beyond 

 the pofsibility of a doubt. 



Dr Kemp, of the college at 

 New York, writes to his friend 

 in Aberdeen thus, dated 28th 

 July last — The legislature, last 

 sefsion, pafsed a law for open 

 ing the na^-'igation from New 

 York to the lakes, with the 

 Hudson and Mohawk rivers, 

 by which, at a small expence, 

 there will be an inland naviga- 

 tion of 2o®o miles, one of the 

 first in the world. — This gives 



historical chfonic'lt;. xki 



ing to Behoirila on the 15th ult. 

 to meet a princefs of Clary, to 

 whom he was to be manied, 

 was attacked at the distance of 

 four posts from that place by a 

 band of robbers, who cut the 

 traces of his carriage, forced 

 the postillion to retire, murder- 

 ed one ot the count's chafseur?, 

 as Well as his va)et de chambre, 

 and stabbed the count himself 

 with a knife in seven places, 

 rhey then robbed the carriage, 

 in which there were valuable 

 effects and iiioney to the amount 

 of f 5,000 florins. Two afsa- 

 sins who were wounded by the 

 chafseur have been taken. 



The Spaniih minister has 

 declared officially, and in the 

 name of his court, to the vice 

 chancellor of court and state, 

 that the Ihocking scenes of the 

 I cth of August have induced 

 his catholic majtsty to declare 

 war on the usurpers of the re- 

 gal dignity in France ; and 

 that the Spaniih troops on the 

 frontiers of France have re- 

 ceived orders immediately to 

 penetrate into that kingdom. 



The senate of Veni e has 

 determined against entering 

 into tlie European alliance to 

 subdue France. The reason 

 they afsign is not the best 



a very high idea of the local ' that .might, or couJd be given, 



advantages of America. 



The count Szapara, the 

 principal governor the arch- 

 duke Palatine of Hungary, go- 



yet is good enough — namely, 

 that their forces would add 

 little strength to the le ^.xe, 

 and that they are needed %t 



